(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121203-hungary1-4a.photoblog600.jpg)Janos Marjai / EPAThousands of protesters turned out on Sunday to denounce demands made by far-right legislator Marton Gyongyosi to make a list of Jews who posed a national security risk.By ReutersBUDAPEST -- Around 10,000 Hungarians protested on Sunday against the far-right opposition Jobbik party, after one of its lawmakers triggered outrage and memories of Nazism by calling for lists of Jews to be drawn up.
The rally outside Budapest's parliament brought together leaders from governing and opposition parties in an unprecedented show of unity in the country's deeply divided political scene.
"We cannot allow things which belong to the darkest pages of history books to repeat themselves," Antal Rogan, head of the ruling Fidesz party's parliamentary group, told demonstrators who waved national flags and demanded the resignation of Jobbik MP Marton Gyongyosi.
On Monday Gyongyosi, one of Jobbik's 44 lawmakers in the 386-seat parliament, said after a debate on fighting in the Gaza Strip it would be "timely" to tally up people of Jewish ancestry in Hungary who posed a national security risk.
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